Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-08
MISERS STARK In DEATH
DRINK, STARVATION AND COLD
END MISERABLE LIVES.

The Fortune of One of the RecIuses Es-
umated at from 500, 900 to $3.50, ,OO0
Both Occupants of tho sRme Filthy
HabttatiOn for Forty Years.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. This after
noon policeman forced an entrance to
the rear ofthe frame dwelling No. !, ,025 L.
Gust street, and discovered the dead bod.
les OF two old misers, Joseph Perry, aged
~ years, and Robert Price, aged 65 years.
The men were eccentric, and had occu-
pied the premises over thirty years, al
though neither haye performed any man.
ual abor for over eight years. They oc.
cupled two rooms on the ground feor,
botn OF which were scantily furnished,
while the door leading to the secund floor
was locked and barred and nailed to keep
intruders from effecting an entrance by
that means. Both men were known az
misers, and refused to associate with any
one In the neighb0rhoOd. They always
kept their windows tightly closed, and
both were never known TO be abse mt FROM
the house ct the same time.
BOTH sTARVE TO DEATH.
All sorts of stories were afoat about
the neighborhood. Some of the neignbors
stated that they were known TO have
Il II
Ing Fund and other banking institutions.
lois morning one of tbe occupants OF the
adjoining promises notified an officer that
neither Perry nor Price had been seen to
leave or enter the dwelling for over a
week, and the officer force open the rear
| window shutter and entered. In the back
room he stumbled over the dead body OF
Price, which was lying on the floor, and
in tue front room the body of Perry was
| found lying on an old lounge. Both were
| terribly emaciaJed and had every appear
ahce OF having starved TO death. The
| CoronePs physicians viewed the remains
and expressed the opinion that death had
resulted from that cause.
FORTY YEARS IN FILTH.
Perry and Price we're cousins, and had
occupied the house for forty years. Ia
early life he was employed in what was
then Samuel Comly's auction house, Sun-
sequently he became partner, and alter
ward succeeded him In business. Perr v
retired ten years ago. He was of an
| economical disposition and accumulated,
1t IS sad, fortune estimated at from
$lOO,OFb to $250000, most of which ia
invested in real estate, stocks, bonds and
mortgages. a
Price was a carpenter, and occasionally
did odd jobs in the neighborhood. Botia4
were Of an eccentric nature, and led thd
lives OF recluses. They were suspicion Il
OF strangers, and seemed to be In COM
slant fear of being robbed.
| BOTH INTEMPERATE.
Both, it is said, were OF intemperata
habits, and it is believed that both wera
under the influence OF liquor when then
laid down In the kitchen of their miserz
bic and tilthY habitation and were frozen
to death. Perry was noticed by police
man on Monday last in an intoxicated
condition and since then neither hav6
been seen.
When an examination was made nk
Perry's effects, three watches, three baIlk
checks aggregatIng $l9l, one share o6
stock In the Philadelphia, Wilm lngtch
and Baltimore railroad, thirty-six SHARE
Of stock In the Masonic Hall, Manayunk.
and several dollars in gold, silver aEd
fractional cuSsency were found. ~